'Tveggja hæða hús á besta stað í bænum': Um Húsið eftir Egil Eðvarðsson
| Autor: | Sigrún Margrét Guðmundsdóttir |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Íslenskar kvikmyndir. 19:135-172 |
| ISSN: | 2298-8513 1670-0139 |
| Popis: | Húsið (1983) or The House, directed by Egill Eðvarðsson, was the first icelandic fea-ture-length horror film. it follows the tradition of the haunted house genre which was popular between the Seventies and Eighties. The haunted house is a graveyard of gothic secrets but also the place where buried secrets come alive. The haunted house is often a traumatic location or a manifestation of the trauma haunting its inhabitants’ minds. Thus, the haunted house horror is usually first and foremost dealing with the horror within the brain of the inhabitants. This article explores how the haunted house in Húsið manifests the protagonist’s trauma in terms of recent studies by the psychiatrists Bessel van der Kolk and Onno van der Hart. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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